Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-05-14
Sermon Of Rev. Dr.. Talmage

BRooKLYN, Nav AT the Tab
crnacle this morning, the pastor
the Rev.T. hewitt Talmage, d. d.
expounded some of the Proverbs Of
Solomon. The congregation sung
with magnificent effect the hymn
beginning
Arm of the Lord. awakel awa&e!
Put onThy strength the nations Shake.
by. Talmage took for his text
Acts XIX, 10: "Many of them also
which used cnrionS acts brought
their books together and burning
them before all men; and they
counted the price of them,snd found
it fifty thousand pieces OF silver"
Paul had been stirring mp Ephe-
sus with some lively sermons about
the sins of that place. Among the
more Important results was the
fact that the citizens brought ont
their bad books, and in d public
place made a bonfire Of them. |
see the people coming out with
their arms full of Ephesian litera-
ture and tossing it into the flames.
! bear All economist standing by
and SAYING: "Stop this waste
Here are seven thousand five hun
dred dollar,' worth of books-do
YOU propose to burn them ali up?
! If YOU don't want to read them
Yourselves, sell them, and let some.
body else read them" NO." said
the people, .sif these books are not
good for us, they are not good for
anybody else, and we shall stand
and watch until the Last leaf has
turned to ashes. They have done
MS a world of harm, and they shall
never do others harm." Hear the
flames crackle and roar!
Well, my frieads, one v98thnttPfee
war wa. great bonfire of bad books and
.pP rs Z IaJ peIs We have enough FEET
high. Many of the publishing
houses would do we'll to throw iuto
the blaze their entire stock OF goods
Bring forth the insutferable trash,
and put it into the fire, and let It !,
be known, in the presence OF God
and angels, and men, that you are
going 70 rid yourhomes ofthe over
topping aud underlying curse o.
prohigate literature.
The printing press is the might
lest agency on earth for'good ant
for evil. The minister of the Cos
mel. standing i'll a pulpit, has re-
sponsible position; buS l DO no
think it is as responsible as the pc
sitiop of an editor ora publisher
At what distaut point of time, a
what far out cycle OF eternity, VII
cease the influence Ola Henry D
RAYMOND, or Horace Greeley, 0
a james Gordon Bennett,or a Wa
son Webb, or an Erastus Brooks
or a Thomas Kinsella9 Take tn
simple statistic that our New Yor
dailies how have a circulation
about one million, and then ciphe
if you can, how far up, and how Il
down, and how far out, reaches I'll
influence of the American prlntln
press. Great God, what is to |
= The issue of all thlsY | believe I'll
Lord intends the printing press
N be the chief means for the world
I'd rescue and evangelisation, ana
3 ;, think that the great last battle.
III the world will not he fought VII
swords and guns, but with typ
aud presses-a purified and Gosp
literature triumphing over, tran
Ming down and crushing out 10
s, ever, that which is depraved. FL
of only way to overcome unclean lite
allure is by scattering abroad tn
which is healtbful. May God spe,
the cylinders Of an honest, intel
gent, aggressive, Christian prlntll
press.
! have 10 tell you this mornll
II That the greatest blessing that ev
4 came to this nation is that OF
! elevated literature, and the gree
est scourge has been that OF |
clean literature. This last has
victims i'll all occupations and
,,ortnants r. has helped to ill
sane asylums, and penitentiarl
and almshouses, aud dcnS OF shan
The bodies OF tins Infection lie
the hospitals and i'll the gray
while their souls are being toss
over into lost eternity, an az
lanche Of horror and despair.
The London plague was MOTH
WIN to it. That counted its victims
thousands, but this modern p
. has already shovclled it's Mile
INTO the charnel,house Of
morally dead. The longest
train that ever ran over the l
. or Hudson tracks was not Il
enough OF large enough TO Cd
The beastliness and the putre
ton which have been gathered
in bad books and newspaper
:, this land in the last twenty We
1N' Now, tits amid such circumstal
that l put, this morning, a quest
of overmastering importance to
!. and your families. What DC
and newspapers shall we II
-, You sec i group them together
ioic newspaper is onl, book
swiIter and more portable sll
and the same rules which sill a
to book reading will apply to Il